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Webster 1828 Edition
Restlessly
REST'LESSLY
,adv.
When the mind casts and turns itself restlessly from one thing to another.
Definition 2024
restlessly
restlessly
English
Adverb
restlessly (comparative more restlessly, superlative most restlessly)
- In a restless manner.
- 1915, George A. Birmingham, “chapter I”, in Gossamer (Project Gutenberg; EBook #24394), London: Methuen & Co., published 8 January 2013 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 558189256:
- There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. […] Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
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References
- restlessly in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911